As independent from his platform. His desire to advance his career, his desire to be President, his desire to end his career on the highest of notes, etc. Sorry that wasn't more clear.
I don't see what Sanders is doing as an attempt to further his platform. It's an attempt to further his personal career.
It isn't quantifiable, it's how his conduct appears to me. His choices seem more focused on self-aggrandizement than in achieving lasting progress in the nation. That he refuses to work together with Democrats save for when he finds them useful to his personal advancement is a key part of that evidence.
Like I said; it wasn't the first time he did so. It's that he immediately abandoned them once he no longer had a shot at the Presidency, and then joined right up again in the next election.
I'm not disputing that.
My point remains that he's using the Democrats as a stepladder to the Presidency, because their policies don't have any means to prevent him doing so, even though he isn't a Democrat and won't remain a Democrat if he doesn't with the nomination. That's cynical and manipulative, and that's why I dislike him.
I remember back then, after the election, they tried to give him a token position with no power and gave him just enough representation to be overruled on any of it and mainly just hounded him for his donor list.
And we already know why he keeps joining with Democrats when it is time for the primaries and such, because they are the most like him and he doesn't want to poach votes running 3rd party. So he joined and he wins, then he goes back to his normal. If he lost and I would expect him to not run at all that time.
If we had viable 3rd parties, then he wouldn't need to do that. But, from what I recall during that time, they weren't really trying to give him power or adopt his stuff, they were trying to placate him and the main push for his stuff now isn't coming from the party even now, it is coming from the voters and many of the candidates who are running forcing the issues.
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Yeah. He represented a lot of banks/credit card companies in Delaware, America’s corporate HQ. In fact, the first clash between Warren and Biden was long before Warren came to the Senate, and it was over the bankruptcy bill that Biden had been pushing for a long time. Warren got Clinton to veto it, but it was pushed again and passed under Bush.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Yep. Biden was instrumental in getting that legislation passed.
In 10 weeks’ time Joe Biden will lay “Joe’s vision for America” at the feet of Iowa’s caucus-goers in the hope that the first voters in the Democratic presidential race will put him on the road to the White House.
Among his promises is that he will fix the student loan crisis saddling 45 million Americans with crippling debt now totalling a staggering $1.5tn. One idea is to allow people struggling to repay private student loans owed to banks and credit card companies to discharge them in bankruptcy.
The pledge is one of the most striking policies on offer from Democratic candidates in the 2020 race, given how the problem Biden now proposes to resolve came about in the first place. Private student loans were largely stripped of bankruptcy protections in 2005 in a congressional move that had the devastating impact of tripling such debt over a decade and locking in millions of Americans to years of grueling repayments.
The Republican-led bill tightened the bankruptcy code, unleashing a huge giveaway to lenders at the expense of indebted student borrowers. At the time it faced vociferous opposition from 25 Democrats in the US Senate.
But it passed anyway, with 18 Democratic senators breaking ranks and casting their vote in favor of the bill. Of those 18, one politician stood out as an especially enthusiastic champion of the credit companies who, as it happens, had given him hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions – Joe Biden.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Indeed. Thank goodness. Because shitty 2 party system is shitty.
I can't possibly bring myself to care. Tribalism is garbage and the DNC and RNC are garbage too.
I would have went with pragmatic and intelligent, but to each their own.
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By that measure everyone is an opportunist, i look at like this. I only work for my current employer as a way to move up an ever climbing ladder and will gladly relocate/change jobs at the drop of a hat as i am only here due to financial reasons which if i can find a way to make more money in a easier job i will take it as i am only loyal to myself. I see no problem with this as it is common in the corporate world and by your standards once a Republican always a Republican etc. And for the record i am voting purely based on healthcare reasons alone ( this is why i still own own both homes in Wyoming ) anything else is secondary to me from global standing to military issues to even basic economic issues.
I believe the third house was recent, after his book.
2 houses is kind of mandatory for politicians since they need to live both in their home state and in Washington DC. Would kind of be nice if we could eliminate that somehow, but I think it'll be a thing as long as politicians are required to be physically present for government.